It failed its first MOT in 10 years in Jun 13 on a few easily rectified points (earths, headlamp aim, handbrake, fuel leak).

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In March 17 it was bought by Stu "upstart8s" but unfortunately due to bad knees, he had to move it on.

So bank of mum and dad were approached to fund the purchase as a daily driver for DJ & Sam while Sam's car (Grawpy) is undergoing refurb.

On a very wet September afternoon, Stu was kind enough to drive down to Tamworth, where he met DJ who had got a train up from Portsmouth. The deal was done and Stu jumped on a train while DJ headed straight for dads workshop

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The leopard skin seats were swapped for a standard pair, the bottle top alloys came off for a set of 15" alloys with Toyo T1R. The drivers door window had jumped out of its runner because the foward lower bolt had come out of the quarterlight - a job I hate! The steering wheel was swapped for a slightly smaller one and a hood cover was chucked in the boot with its new carpet. I tidied up some underbonnet wiring and recrimped a spade onto the low brake fluid sensor.

Jim, you and Phil recently offered me suggestions for converting this car to an hydraulic clutch (to overcome my unique problems), is this another job to be added to the list of jobs to be done on #54? I am sure some of the other ageing owners would be interested. If that is the case, will you be using the 'concentric slave cylinder' that you suggested?
I don't know if you remember professor Heinz Wolff (the great egg race) but I'm sure you would earn some of his 'serendipity' points for such a creative solution.
Stu

So, I took Grawpy down to Portsmouth for the wedding but instead of liberating some much needed room in my workshop, this somehow ended up back in Gloucester

It failed the MOT for a leaking caliper, leaking engine, leaking gearbox and some lights not working (they were working before and after the test )

So, I cleaned the underside (small leak from the crank seal that has spread all the way along the sump and gearbox), swapped the caliper and spent a whole day freeing up all of the pistons and bleed nipples (both sides), then bled the brakes (no pics)

Jim,
I had no idea the car was in such a poor state of repair when I sold it to your son. I am downloading some cash and will organise a full refund in the next couple of days. I can only say how lucky all of us were in driving the car in that condition and not having a serious fire. Again, I can't tell you how sorry I am about this.
Stu